Wax-applying device



A. BATES.

WAX APPLYING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 15, 1917.

1,327,014, Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR BATES, 0F LEICESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE AS$IGNMENTS, T0

UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORA-TION OF NEW JERSEY.

WAX-AP?LYING DEVICE.

Application filed August 15, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR Barns, a subject of the King of England,residing at Leicester, Leicestershire, England, have invented certainImprovements in VVax-Applying Devices, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating likeparts in the several figures.

This invention relates to wax-applying devices adapted for use in themanufacture of footwear and is particularly concerned with theapplication of wax or like material in the course of finishingoperations in the manufacture of footwear, as for example, theapplication of wax in the crease formed in a clog upper at the pointwhere it is attached to the sole to cover the heads of the nails.

The general object of the invention is to provide a wax-applying devicewhich may be readily brought into operative relation to the work andwhich will operate to apply a ribbon of wax upon the work quickly andneatly.

One feature of the invention consists in providing a wax-applying tool,having an elongated work-engaging surface which is shaped to co-act withthe portion of work with which the tool is to be engaged, with a channelor furrow longitudinally of said work-engaging surface which shallassist in the formation of a ribbon or stripe of wax.

Another feature of the invention consists in arranging the wax-applyingtool so that wax is supplied to its furrow at a point beyond the rangeof its engagement with the work in order to avoid interference with thefree supply of wax.

Still other features whereby the operator is enabled to apply the workto the tool conveniently, the flow of wax controlled, and the desiredflexibility obtained, will become clear from the following descriptionof one specific form of the invention taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a waxapplying device embodyingfeatures of the present invention in a preferred form;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of parts of the Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Serial No. 186,331.

device shown in Fig. 1, but drawn to a scale larger than that of saidfigure; and

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the applying tool hereinafter described,showing also part of a clog presented to the device for application ofwax in the upper crease.

In the construction illustrated in the drawings, the device comprises anoverhang ing arm 2 adapted to be bolted to a support 1 and provided witha wax container 3 in which wax is maintained at the desired temperatureby a gas flame from a burner 14. The nozzle 4: of the device is providedwith a delivery passage 15 having a transverse branch 16 at its upperend which, as described in the specification of my Letters Patent No.1,122,057, granted Dec. 22, 1914, is normally closed but is put intocommunication with the interior of the wax container 3 when the nozzle 4is moved upwardly against the tension of a spring 17 in the presentationof the work to the device.

In the improved device, as shown, there is fixed to the lower extremityof the nozzle 4, by a screw 5, a work-engaging applying tool 6 bored torece1ve the nozzle 4 and roughly of oblong cross-section. The lower endof the tool 6 has a work-engaging surface preferably shaped tocorrespond to the portion of the work to which wax is to be applied andserving to assist in guiding the relative movement of the tool and work.For example, it may be beveled at 1' and 8 on both sides to give it awedge-shape to Iit more or less exactly the crease of a clog. The ridgeso formed is rounded at the ends so that it is somewhat convex whenviewed from one side, as shown in Fig. 2, the ridge lying in a verticalplane and approximately at right angles to the axis of the nozzle. Theridge has a channel or furrow 9 running along its apex and at the upperend of the furrow there is an orifice 10 communicating with aduct boredin the block 6 to meet the delivery orifice of the passage 15 in thenozzle 1.

In using the device to deliver a continuous ribbon of wax into thecrease of a clog to conceal the heads of the nails which at tach theupper to the sole, the operator holding the clog in his handpresents. itto the device so that the ridge or wedge end of the tool 6 enters thecrease. the work upwardly and with it the nozzle against the tension ofthe spring 17 wax promptly commences to flow from the orifice 10 at theupper end of the channel or furrow 9 and filling the furrow flows intoand is spread in the crease, and the operator using the ridged part ofthe block 6 as a crease guide runs the work along the tool leaving acontinuous ribbon of wax inthe crease. The tool is preferably supportedin an inclined position for the convenience of the operator and as aconsequence of the disposition of the orifice 10 in the block 6 there isno tendency for it to become choked by extraneous matter which may bepresent on the work over which the tool passes.- It is convenient toallow the tool. 6 a certain amount of movement of accommodation with thenozzle 4 about the axis of the latter. To do this and yet limit themovement, it is convenient to fasten, as by a screw 12, to the nozzleguide chamber above the nozzle an arm 11 projecting forwardly above thetool 6, a fiat surface on the under side of which arm is just clear of afiat surface on the upper side of the tool, as shown in Fig. 2. In thisway the tool 6 and nozzle 41: can rock or swivel a little in eitherdirection before being arrested by contact of the block with the arm 11.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a wax-applying .device, a workengaging tool having wallsconverging laterally from the sides of the tool to form an elongatedwork-engaging projection pro vided with a furrow extendinglongitudinally near the apex of said pro ection, and means for supplyingwax to said furrow whereby with relative movement of the work and toolthe wax is applied in a ribbon or stripe.

2. In a wax-applying device, a workengaging tool having an elongatedworkengaging surface constructed to enter a depression in the work withwhich the tool is to be engaged, a furrow extending longitudinally ofsaid work-engaging surface opposite the bottom of the depression, andmeans for supplying wax to said furrow.

3. In a'wax-applying device, a workengaging tool having an elongatedworkengaging surface shaped to correspond to the portion of the workwith which the tool is to be engaged, a furrow running On pressinglongitudinally of said work engaging surface and extended to a pointnormally out of engagement with the work, and means for supplying wax tothe portion of the furrow which is normally out of engagement with thework.

4. In a device for applying wax in a crease or groove in an article offootwear, an applying tool having a crease-entering ridge adapted toextend along the crease and within the same, said ridge being providedwith a recess extending longitudinally of its apex to assist in thedeposition of wax in the crease, and means for supplying wax to saidrecess.

5. In a device for applying wax to an article of footwear, an applyingtool having an elongated work engaging surface, a furrow extending alongsaid work engaging surface, said tool being supported so that the furrowis inclined to the horizontal, and means for supplying wax to the upperend of the furrow whereby the wax tends to fiow along the furrow.

6. I11 a device for applying wax in a crease or groove in an article offootwear, an applying tool having an elongated wedge shapedwork-engaging surface, a furrow along the apex of said wedge-shapedsurface, said tool being supported so that the furrow is inclined to thehorizontal, and means for supplying wax to the upper end of the furrow.

7. In a wax-applying device, a wax receptacle provided with an opening,an ap plying tool resiliently mounted to reciprocate in the opening andhaving a passage arranged to control the supply of wax by the movementof the tool relatively to the wax receptacle, said tool being providedwith a work-engaging surface shaped to correspond to the surface of thework with which the tool is to be engaged, and a furrow extending alongthe work-engaging surface, said furrow being connected through thepassage with said wax receptacle when the tool is moved by theapplication of the work thereto.

8. In a device for applying wax in a crease or groove, a wax receptacle,a wedgeshaped applying tool turning in said wax receptacle, and meansfor limiting the movement of the tool.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ARTHUR BATES.

